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Dear Sir; Please don't think me rude, however, do you have glass left eye? I noticed that your left, eyelid, has limited mobility. Again, I'm not trying to be rule. I am just getting over an ulcerated tow. So, I'm not the one, ever to be rude to anyone, it was just a question. I enjoy your videos. All the best Shaun
No idea how you could incorporate this suggestion into a tale, myth, or legend, as you always seem to need one to form the crux of a topic at hand in order to keep the theming of your channel consistent, but I would love to hear your take on Dr. Karl Tänzler, perhaps one of the most notable necrophiliacs ever recorded, as his story is both a deranged and a pitiful one. I don't know how often necrophilia appears in mythology, however. Other than that, I hope you have a fine October, Jon.
ooooooo ho haaa-o~ I'm the Candyman.~ ooooooo ho haaa-o~ Coming from bounty land~ ehm! What were you saying? Yeah yeah, right! Let's get this to the top.
I'm just surprised that the insane man with the hook is somehow more polite than the dude in the story. I mean, he tried to open the door rather than just smash the window with his hook.
I grew up with the hanging version, the drip drip drip version, and the sliced stomach separately and combined. He was hanging with his stomach cut and the hook left in him. Creeps me out lol reminds me of the "dog" licking their hand from under the bed urban legend.
@@leoncaw326 Unlikely to happen in real life though. If an intruder got into the house, the dog would likely smell him coming and the person would be awoken by the dog's barking.
I’ve had an arm disability my whole life, and might need to be amputated when I’m older and get a prosthetic. Sir, this was hilarious! I love your edgy humor, keep going!
The hook story i heard was that the couple kept hearing scraping sounds while driving and hit a huge "bump" in the road. The boyfriend decided to get her home before checking, only to see the hook in the back bumper, implying the mf was run over by thier car 😅
Oh, that's a version I've never heard before! Then again, for the longest time the only version I knew was the one from "Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark." It wasn't until middle school or high school that I heard the version where the boyfriend was killed and suspended above the car while the girlfriend lived.
the way out heard it, (around 1998): the couple are parking at a makeout spot in the woods, just finishing up, and the guy goes to take a piss. they have both been drinking, the girl puts on the radio, hears the announcement, gets scared, she hears a scuffle in the woods outside and the guy shouts up that he just pissed on a racoon. they both laugh. the girl tells him to come back to the car and he says no, he needs to take a dump, just turn up the music and relax. she does as he says, waits, has another drink, and she hears another scuffle, she shudders and locks the doors and turns up the radio. she sees a racoon in the headlights of the car, it's not looking at her, but at something above the car; there's a scratching on the roof and she thinks "must be another racoon" she turns the radio up, and she waits and she hears more scratching and eventually she shouts out to the boy again, but gets no reply, she thinks about taking the car and leaving, but he has the keys so she can't. eventually, the drink takes effect and she falls asleep. suddenly there's a bang and a thump on the roof, far to loud to be a racoon. as she opens her eyes, she sees the blue lights, and suddenly she's surrounded by police cars. the cops are still jumping out of their cars, guns out and the girl starts to panic, they are all looking at the space above the car and the cops look terrified, one of the younger cops doubles over vomiting. an older cop makes eye contact with the girl and tells her to look at him, sends the rest to search the area. The old cop coaxes the girl to open the car door, telling her to look at him and not turn around. when my cousin told the story this part was the main event, as the girl walks like orpheus away from the car, with cop telling her not to look back and she slowly works out what's there. step, it must be awful, step, it must be her boyfriend, step, it must be horrible... and so on, i think my cousin stretched out this part of the story for about five mins. when the girl eventually turns she sees the boy "opened up and dangling like drew barrymore in scream" from the tree above the car, the killer is lying spread on his back across the roof of the car, where the cops have shot him, with the car keys dangling from his hook.
I'd like to see a messed up origin video about my favorite story from the movie Urban Legend....the killer in the backseat. To this day, I check my backseat whenever I get into my car alone at night.
When I was a kid, we had a legend (Scary) about a pilot that went down in the Cascade Mountains and ended up having the propeller stuck through the middle of his chest. He somehow survived and went on a killing spree, killing any campers he came across in the mountains.
I love CZ’s World!! I love his long explanation videos or the complete history of characters! It’s so fun knowing UA-camrs know each other in real life!
@@robintauber9994 I think hers is more like there's someone in the house type of deal, and I think he scraped off the kids faces or something. I watched it like twice a day for a year when I was a kid, literally every day at least once and most times twice and I still watch it LOL
the first version I remember is the "boyfriend's dead and his blood drips" version and my mom heard it as a kid and it still freaks her out to this day. I can't even do the "man door hand hook car door" meme without her pushing my shoulder to stop.
I was born and raised in Texarkana, everyone and their mom was told this story, my grandmom told me about the Phantom, and she was 15 when this happened. My class even watched "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" in Jr. High. 😈
Tex or Arkana side? I’ve only heard of the hook murd*rs based in Texarkana. I’ve not ever heard the legend outside of Arkansas. ( I mean organic telling of the story. ) Movies don’t count. Lol
Same with the prisons in Huntsville TX. Three prisons, mind you, that share a small town with a VERY large university. If that’s not the makings of a good horror flick I don’t know what is.
I was in the middle of a video but as soon as I saw the notification I screamed “URBAN LEGENDS!” And found the video (because the notification already disappeared)
When I think of The Hook legend, I think of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark first because that's where I heard it first. Then "I Know What You Did Last Summer" AND "Urban Legend." I love these videos! Happy Spooky Month to you, Jon!
I was reminded of the real life case that partly inspired The Fugitive TV show and movie. A doctor is wrongly accused of murdering his wife when it was actually a "one armed man".
Actually, my first experience with The Hook came from my Criminology class my freshman year of college. My professor liked to bring up famous murder cases in class for us to debate every Friday so we can practice the techniques we had learned that week. One Friday, we were doing the Zodiac Killer (another serial killer who operated much the same way as the Texarkana Moonlight Murderer and was also never solved) and one of my classmates said "Hey, that's the story of The Hook!" And it took off from there.
Am I the only one who took the scraping as the man with the hook hand taunting the teens and the fact his hook was stuck in the door indicated he was in the act of opening the door when the car sped off? I didn’t get any “struggle” from the story description but I guess I’m the odd one out 🤷
It seems a little off to say the guy could make his escape but be unable to open a car door. I always thought the hook in the door meant he was in the process of opening it just as the accelerator was stomped, not that he was struggling. I mean, what kind of scary story would it be if he had trouble? Teenage Girl: (classic horror movie scream) There's a man trying to break into our car! Bad Guy: That's right! You kids are in for it now....or in about five minutes, whenever I can manage. In fact, would you mind stepping out of the car and helping me with this door?
I really hope that this whole month of episodes are going to be focused on Urban Legends and Urban Legend-Inspired movies like Candyman. Side note; HOW IS JON NOT A VOICE ACTOR?
Yes! Love these kinds of stories. I remember being in elemtnery school and singing Old Skinned Tom during music class on Halloween. I would love to see you cover Sounds this month as well.
When I was a kid, I had no idea it was based on an urban legend from my home state, Tennessee. Now, as an adult, I'm like, "I can't believe they actually let us sing that."
We've had this story in the UK too. Along with one where a car breaks down, the man gets out to fix it. She hears a constant dripping. The police tell her to get out and don't turn around, but she does. The killers behind hims her holding her husbands severed head.
The version I grew up hearing was weird. When the couple finds the book hand it’s dripping blood, as if it was imbedded in the killer’s flesh and ripped out when they drove away. I bet this is at the top of the urban legend list for number of varieties.
Mine was a couple of different stories that all have the same formula (as far as I remember) - couple in car that runs out of gas/breaks down in the middle of the night -Man goes to get help, telling girl not to open door until he gets back (or call the police if he doesn’t come back by morning) -girl hears weird noises including a knock on the car door -hears about hook man killer (probably from the radio) -girl falls asleep -girl goes outside to see dead boyfriend and a hook stuck in the door/his body Basically the hubby would have been killed while she was asleep or far away and was dragged back to the car by the killer. All versions I heard did have the hook hand left at the crime scene
My lovely Arkansan spouse wants me to pause this video to let you know that Arkansans pronounce "Bowie" as "Boo-ie". Same pronounciation applies to bowie knives. David Bowie, however, is still Bow-ie", because a man has every right to mispronounce his own dang name.
I think I have an idea for next month. How about a video about one of the 3 deadliest monsters in Latin American folklore. One of them will be El Silbon because he's pretty scary but at the same time he's very fascinating and cool and also because the only Latin American folklore you did is La Llorona and it will connect Dia De Los Muertos on a certain level. Despite the holiday being on Friday and Saturday.
My intro to this urban legend was wildly different A friend in boy scouts told me it, much to my fear, but instead the story was about a family on a road trip when the car runs out of gas or something. The dad tells the wife and kids to sit tight and he'll be back with fuel. While he's gone the wife turns on the radio and hears the warning. After a while they hear soft tapping on the car roof, the wife turns up the radio, the banging continues and gets louder. This goes on for a bit before the radio is maxed out in volume. All of a sudden police cars pull up and someone on the bullhorn calls out to the car for the family to rush out and over to the police car and to not look back. They all comply and rush out, the youngest kid trips and falls, in the process he looks back to the the madman slamming the dad's head violently on the car roof. The detail of the hook was mentioned but didn't play the terrifying role in the original one in the book
I coulda sworn I heard a version of this but the hook, which was bloody, was stuck in the front door of the girl’s house. I can’t remember if the door was cracked or not, just that the bloody hook was stuck in the lock of the door.
You asked if the fact that he only uses his hooked hand isn’t able list because it acts like he doesn’t have another hand to use and you’d be correct in fact, I remember hearing that exact story that you told and making that comment when it was told in summer camp in North Carolina, they have their own legends there too, won’t go into it, but I was never scared of any of those because I need a couple of things they didn’t and I realized immediately how stupid it was… remember walking away from the campfire and walking all the way back to camp, where you know we had our dorm and going back to bed… one of the dorm counselors asked me why I walked away, and I told her that they should hear the story from the point of view of somebody who has met people who are handicapped, and the one thing that always gets us is the fact that people think we can’t do anything like normal people, and then she looked at me and she said you don’t look handicap and I just shook my head and said that’s because mine’s invisible to the naked eye and then told her I’m dyslexic and the reason I can read her right is because when they made a comment like most people who make comments unthinkingly I was gonna show the person who made the comment how long they were. And I told her just I don’t wanna talk about it anymore. Let’s just leave it alone and she did.
My first guess was that he had an actual weapon in his good hand, so he was using the hook(which would be far less effective/harder to use as a lethal weapon than a knife, axe, gun, etc.) to open the door so he'd have the weapon ready. His "inability" to open the door could be due to the hook being poorly fitting/affixed to his arm, as I find it hard to believe an insane asylum would allow a violent inmate to have something like a hook that he could potentially hurt himself or others with. We could also speculate that it was due to the fact that it was someplace dark and that hooks don't have nerve endings, so he may have just been having trouble feeling for the door handle. Third possibility is that the whole reason he lost his hand to begin with is that he had an accident due to already being uncoordinated, clumsy, and/or lacking his mental faculties.
@@JonSoloI'm from Indiana, according to the legend the hookman was a serial killer who murdered his victims with a hook, when he died he was buried in a cemetery, the locals were mad so they buried him in an unmarked grave, his spirit is still looking for victims, this took place at lovers lane in Peru Indiana
You know what’s weird? The hookman is the main antagonist in the movie I know what you did last summer, which is based on a book, but the hook is not me tioned in the book
You’ve got a great channel! In fact you have great a story-telling ability. You should stretch your content into more stories like this. Had me captivated. 😮
You should really do a Messed Up Origins of When A Stranger Calls, because that's also based on a true story. It happened in my hometown and is one of the most terrible things you will hear.
Version I heard didn't have the date getting handsy. Matter of fact, he stayed a gentleman, even when he was OFFERED the chance to get lucky, because it was getting dark, and it was later than they should be out, but did make out for a bit. More of a cautionary tale about staying out late, than the dangers of sex.
Jon!! Every time I watch a video I see you wave your arms around while you’re talking and I would love a short video of all your tattoos! I need a tattoo tour 😂
I love this video even more because I grew up with the story of The town that dreaded sundown and I love it when stories of my area get covered. I've heard many variations of the hook story but I think scary stories to tell in the dark was the first version I heard.
Funny thing, the version I'm familiar with the boyfriend leaves the car to reassure his girlfriend there's no one there. I believe she gets spooked and drives away because I remember the ending better than the middle. Once she feels safe, she opens the door to find the hook dug into the car door. I don't mean stuck to the handle. I mean in the car door like he tried to stop her from driving off.
Yay, spoopy season. I'd love to see the origins of the Virginia Bunnyman. I believe it had some of an influence on Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. The tals is a train crashed passing over a bridge in Clifton, VA transferring patients between mental institutions in the DC area and either they all died, or one of them escaped and has been terrorizing and killing local residents, the haunting image of a noose hangs from underneath the overpass as an ominous warning on Halloween.
I heard the version on scary stories to tell in the dark. I don't think I read it, though, I'm sure I have that book. Not sure... maybe the Supernatural TV series. 🤷♀️
I've heard them all, but the way you present them is wonderful! (If you have time, would you mind covering the Greenbriar Ghost? If not, that's okay; it's really more of a local thing anyway.)
I heard this as the one where the guy is killed and his hanging head is what was was banging on the car roof. My cousins told me this way back when we were teens 😂. It got me so scared but also made me want to watch more scary movies
I've heard the drip, drip, the foot scratching, and first of all, the hook in the door. I always thought the one about the scratching or tapping on the roof was mixing up this with the Mothman, though.
I read the story for the first time at some point in the mid-80s, in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I credit that book series for my love of urban legends.
Why did the other character have to be named Elizabeth ?! The version I had heard was always a cautionary tale, and the other version I had heard was 'and that killer was me' as the last line, but I'm thinking that addendum might be another urban legend. I could be wrong there though.
I heard it first from my parents explaining a news article on urban legends, then I heard it told at camp, and from Scary Tales to Tell in the Dark. I also remember the Far Side parodying it with the Hook Man telling his grandkids who two teenagers in their car made off his his hook.
@@heatherturner2366 Yeah, but it was all written out on paper, their job expectations, their pay, their percentage take on loot, injury compensation based on loss of part etc.
The town that dreaded sundown didn't know it was actually based on the said string of murders heard hear until I was in my twenties and never would have thought it might be the inspiration for the hook other murders may have also contributed but there were so many similar attacks back then .
SPOOPY SEASON HAS RETURNED, MERE MORTALS! 😈 We'll be exploring more scary stories throughout this month, so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out! And comment your suggestions for which twisted tales you want to see next!
Dear Sir;
Please don't think me rude, however, do you have glass left eye? I noticed that your left, eyelid, has limited mobility.
Again, I'm not trying to be rule. I am just getting over an ulcerated tow. So, I'm not the one, ever to be rude to anyone, it was just a question.
I enjoy your videos.
All the best Shaun
Aside from Peter pan, my first HOOK HAND I remember was John Prewitt from ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING
No idea how you could incorporate this suggestion into a tale, myth, or legend, as you always seem to need one to form the crux of a topic at hand in order to keep the theming of your channel consistent, but I would love to hear your take on Dr. Karl Tänzler, perhaps one of the most notable necrophiliacs ever recorded, as his story is both a deranged and a pitiful one. I don't know how often necrophilia appears in mythology, however.
Other than that, I hope you have a fine October, Jon.
Can you make a messed up origins of the Babysitter story?
Or Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton?
Anyone else wanna see a Messed Up Origins episode focused around Candyman?
Let's get the "Likes" up on this one, everybody!
Love Clive Barker!
CZs World already has a video about it if you want to check it out.
ooooooo ho haaa-o~
I'm the Candyman.~
ooooooo ho haaa-o~
Coming from bounty land~
ehm! What were you saying? Yeah yeah, right! Let's get this to the top.
Yes...and the movie Urban Legend
I like the idea of The Hook saving a young girl from a rapist. Not the whole murdering an innocent girl thing
Same! Also! *_Professionals_* *_Have_* *_Standards_*
I'm just surprised that the insane man with the hook is somehow more polite than the dude in the story. I mean, he tried to open the door rather than just smash the window with his hook.
Spongebob:
It's the hook slinging...
The hook pinging...
The hook singing
Squidward:
It's the hook slinging slasher!!!
I thought it was the hash slinging slasher
@@gnarlysandman5076it is
It is the hash slinger slasher
Hash slinging slasher*
@@Scarecrow_LuuNa lol you did the thing kinda
I gotta admit, I first thought that the video was about Captain Hook, but still watched the whole video.
Me too
Same, I wondered if maybe it inspired Captain Hook
I grew up with the hanging version, the drip drip drip version, and the sliced stomach separately and combined. He was hanging with his stomach cut and the hook left in him. Creeps me out lol reminds me of the "dog" licking their hand from under the bed urban legend.
“Humans can lick too” was my #1 most traumatizing urban legend as a kid.
@@leoncaw326 Unlikely to happen in real life though. If an intruder got into the house, the dog would likely smell him coming and the person would be awoken by the dog's barking.
god now i’m thinking about the licking
I’ve had an arm disability my whole life, and might need to be amputated when I’m older and get a prosthetic. Sir, this was hilarious! I love your edgy humor, keep going!
Best Arrested Development reference EVER. That made my whole damn day.
OMG, the "of course it was a foot..." and the hand thrown! 🤣🤣🤣 I am such a dork for cracking up so much at that bit!!!
The hook story i heard was that the couple kept hearing scraping sounds while driving and hit a huge "bump" in the road. The boyfriend decided to get her home before checking, only to see the hook in the back bumper, implying the mf was run over by thier car 😅
Oh, that's a version I've never heard before!
Then again, for the longest time the only version I knew was the one from "Scary Stories to Tell In The Dark." It wasn't until middle school or high school that I heard the version where the boyfriend was killed and suspended above the car while the girlfriend lived.
My favorite part of this story is the idea of a prison or asylum inmate allowed to keep their hook with them in the institution
Must have escaped from Arkham Asylum. Everyone’s just wearing their supervillain costumes in there.
@@leoncaw326Wanna know some trivia about that place?
the way out heard it, (around 1998):
the couple are parking at a makeout spot in the woods, just finishing up, and the guy goes to take a piss. they have both been drinking, the girl puts on the radio, hears the announcement, gets scared, she hears a scuffle in the woods outside and the guy shouts up that he just pissed on a racoon. they both laugh.
the girl tells him to come back to the car and he says no, he needs to take a dump, just turn up the music and relax.
she does as he says, waits, has another drink, and she hears another scuffle, she shudders and locks the doors and turns up the radio.
she sees a racoon in the headlights of the car, it's not looking at her, but at something above the car; there's a scratching on the roof and she thinks "must be another racoon"
she turns the radio up, and she waits and she hears more scratching and eventually she shouts out to the boy again, but gets no reply, she thinks about taking the car and leaving, but he has the keys so she can't. eventually, the drink takes effect and she falls asleep.
suddenly there's a bang and a thump on the roof, far to loud to be a racoon.
as she opens her eyes, she sees the blue lights, and suddenly she's surrounded by police cars.
the cops are still jumping out of their cars, guns out and the girl starts to panic, they are all looking at the space above the car and the cops look terrified, one of the younger cops doubles over vomiting. an older cop makes eye contact with the girl and tells her to look at him, sends the rest to search the area. The old cop coaxes the girl to open the car door, telling her to look at him and not turn around.
when my cousin told the story this part was the main event, as the girl walks like orpheus away from the car, with cop telling her not to look back and she slowly works out what's there.
step, it must be awful, step, it must be her boyfriend, step, it must be horrible... and so on, i think my cousin stretched out this part of the story for about five mins.
when the girl eventually turns she sees the boy "opened up and dangling like drew barrymore in scream" from the tree above the car, the killer is lying spread on his back across the roof of the car, where the cops have shot him, with the car keys dangling from his hook.
I'd like to see a messed up origin video about my favorite story from the movie Urban Legend....the killer in the backseat. To this day, I check my backseat whenever I get into my car alone at night.
YES
Same!
Same! I always check the back seat!
When I was a kid, we had a legend (Scary) about a pilot that went down in the Cascade Mountains and ended up having the propeller stuck through the middle of his chest. He somehow survived and went on a killing spree, killing any campers he came across in the mountains.
BTW, the story ended up naming the guy "Prop Man".
That is too funny. Easiest slasher killer to outrun I bet.
Why would he go after campers? Wouldn't he have a vendetta against planes (or other pilots)?
I love CZ’s World!! I love his long explanation videos or the complete history of characters! It’s so fun knowing UA-camrs know each other in real life!
I wanna see Jon and Zack collaborate
So do we! 😂 He and I been talking about it for years but we both have crazy busy schedules. I'm hoping we can get it done in 2025 though
@@JonSolo that would be cool both of you are awesome!
In "Adventures In Babysitting", the babysitter tells the kids the story in the car at the start of her shift with the kids.
Oh yeah, and then they run into a mechanic with a hook hand and all scream. I love her description of the victims as " like spaghetti-Os with meat"
@@robintauber9994 I think hers is more like there's someone in the house type of deal, and I think he scraped off the kids faces or something. I watched it like twice a day for a year when I was a kid, literally every day at least once and most times twice and I still watch it LOL
@@tinahs8269 handsome John Pruitt!!!
It would be impossibly difficult for someone to open a car door in the 70-80’s with a hook for a hand. You’d have to push the button in and pull.
Perhaps he did not intend on opening the door. Maybe he just wanted his hook pulled off to scare them.
the first version I remember is the "boyfriend's dead and his blood drips" version and my mom heard it as a kid and it still freaks her out to this day. I can't even do the "man door hand hook car door" meme without her pushing my shoulder to stop.
I was born and raised in Texarkana, everyone and their mom was told this story, my grandmom told me about the Phantom, and she was 15 when this happened. My class even watched "The Town that Dreaded Sundown" in Jr. High. 😈
Tex or Arkana side?
I’ve only heard of the hook murd*rs based in Texarkana. I’ve not ever heard the legend outside of Arkansas. ( I mean organic telling of the story. ) Movies don’t count. Lol
@@raewren Most of my family live on Arkansas side, the lovers lane attacks happen on Texas side in what is now known as Spring Lake Park .
The second double murder I mean for Spring Lake Park.
4:08 that's why right by the Elgin Mental Health Center had a "Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers" sign on Lake Street.
I would walk along there as a teenager and get offers all the time. Always made me wonder what if I was an escaped patient lol.
*why the the road right by
They have signs like that near prisons and hospitals all over the place
Same with the prisons in Huntsville TX. Three prisons, mind you, that share a small town with a VERY large university. If that’s not the makings of a good horror flick I don’t know what is.
That radio voice was really good. It sounded like someone else speaking the way you do.
I was in the middle of a video but as soon as I saw the notification I screamed “URBAN LEGENDS!” And found the video (because the notification already disappeared)
Same and I was in the middle of watching the news reports on the leaked possible actual UFO special program.
When I think of The Hook legend, I think of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark first because that's where I heard it first. Then "I Know What You Did Last Summer" AND "Urban Legend." I love these videos! Happy Spooky Month to you, Jon!
Ooooo!!!! My Nana used to tell me a story- "Where's my big toe?!" Terrifying! I would love to know the origin.
He did that one last year iirc
"Man car door hook hand!"
I murmured this to myself as I clicked on this video, lmao. Tumblr has ruined me.
This is exactly what was going through my head the entire time, I’m glad I’m not the only one suffering from tumblr brain rot lol
This was literally the first version of the story I'd ever heard 😂
Man door hand hook car door!
Okay, I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one who thought it was the only version that existed 😂
I was reminded of the real life case that partly inspired The Fugitive TV show and movie. A doctor is wrongly accused of murdering his wife when it was actually a "one armed man".
Actually, my first experience with The Hook came from my Criminology class my freshman year of college.
My professor liked to bring up famous murder cases in class for us to debate every Friday so we can practice the techniques we had learned that week. One Friday, we were doing the Zodiac Killer (another serial killer who operated much the same way as the Texarkana Moonlight Murderer and was also never solved) and one of my classmates said "Hey, that's the story of The Hook!"
And it took off from there.
Almost spat out my coffee 🤣 8:52
Am I the only one who took the scraping as the man with the hook hand taunting the teens and the fact his hook was stuck in the door indicated he was in the act of opening the door when the car sped off? I didn’t get any “struggle” from the story description but I guess I’m the odd one out 🤷
It seems a little off to say the guy could make his escape but be unable to open a car door. I always thought the hook in the door meant he was in the process of opening it just as the accelerator was stomped, not that he was struggling. I mean, what kind of scary story would it be if he had trouble?
Teenage Girl: (classic horror movie scream) There's a man trying to break into our car!
Bad Guy: That's right! You kids are in for it now....or in about five minutes, whenever I can manage. In fact, would you mind stepping out of the car and helping me with this door?
Halloween Hawaiian shirt goes crazy 😂👌🏾
I first misread it as the Messed Up Origins of CAPTAIN Hook. LOL!
I mostly remember that Peter Pan had cut off Hook's hand and fed it to the crocodile!
SAAAAME! At first I was like, “daaaaang! Peter had a reason to be a little jerk!” And then I reread the title 😅😅
Hey Jon could you do the messed up origins of Dracula and Renfield this month please???
would totally love that
"Sacrifice a thumbs up to the algorithm gods." 😮😅😂
16:09 How are we supposed to have discussions about serious subjects if we arnt allow to say the words?
With silly sounding work arounds that don’t match the subject matter
I really hope that this whole month of episodes are going to be focused on Urban Legends and Urban Legend-Inspired movies like Candyman. Side note; HOW IS JON NOT A VOICE ACTOR?
Yes! Love these kinds of stories. I remember being in elemtnery school and singing Old Skinned Tom during music class on Halloween. I would love to see you cover Sounds this month as well.
Oh yeah!! We called that song "Ghost of Tom". Good memories; I'm glad you mentioned that!
When I was a kid, I had no idea it was based on an urban legend from my home state, Tennessee. Now, as an adult, I'm like, "I can't believe they actually let us sing that."
🎶Would it be chilly with no skin on? 🎶 Though I remember it as "Ghost of John".
We've had this story in the UK too.
Along with one where a car breaks down, the man gets out to fix it. She hears a constant dripping.
The police tell her to get out and don't turn around, but she does.
The killers behind hims her holding her husbands severed head.
The version I grew up hearing was weird. When the couple finds the book hand it’s dripping blood, as if it was imbedded in the killer’s flesh and ripped out when they drove away. I bet this is at the top of the urban legend list for number of varieties.
*hook hand
I mean I truly do love folklore horror stories and videos much more so what more kind of creepy stuff you got to expose and explain Jon solo
9:45 as a kid I always thought the man was in the process of opening the door as the car took off causing the hook to come off
That’s what I thought after he said it as well (I live under a rock. My first time hearing about these things)
Mine was a couple of different stories that all have the same formula (as far as I remember)
- couple in car that runs out of gas/breaks down in the middle of the night
-Man goes to get help, telling girl not to open door until he gets back (or call the police if he doesn’t come back by morning)
-girl hears weird noises including a knock on the car door
-hears about hook man killer (probably from the radio)
-girl falls asleep
-girl goes outside to see dead boyfriend and a hook stuck in the door/his body
Basically the hubby would have been killed while she was asleep or far away and was dragged back to the car by the killer. All versions I heard did have the hook hand left at the crime scene
I remember hearing that tale when I was a kid. You told it exactly like I heard it decades ago. 👍🏿
I always thought the hook in the story was a weapon, not a hand replacement. Hay hooks and meat hooks are brutal weapons.
My lovely Arkansan spouse wants me to pause this video to let you know that Arkansans pronounce "Bowie" as "Boo-ie". Same pronounciation applies to bowie knives. David Bowie, however, is still Bow-ie", because a man has every right to mispronounce his own dang name.
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I think I have an idea for next month. How about a video about one of the 3 deadliest monsters in Latin American folklore. One of them will be El Silbon because he's pretty scary but at the same time he's very fascinating and cool and also because the only Latin American folklore you did is La Llorona and it will connect Dia De Los Muertos on a certain level. Despite the holiday being on Friday and Saturday.
The horror intro 10/10 you should more
The HOOKMAN I remember is from the TV series SUPERNATRAL
My thing is... what asylum would allow a patient to keep their hook hand? Unless he stole it during the escape...
I wish Jon would cover the Odyssey 😔
He should also do the Iliad too.
18:15 wild 29 n 17 probably didn’t deserve to die but that gap is wild
I think he did tbh, I only feel bad about her death, not his. He victimised her and she died before getting away from him :(
My intro to this urban legend was wildly different
A friend in boy scouts told me it, much to my fear, but instead the story was about a family on a road trip when the car runs out of gas or something. The dad tells the wife and kids to sit tight and he'll be back with fuel. While he's gone the wife turns on the radio and hears the warning. After a while they hear soft tapping on the car roof, the wife turns up the radio, the banging continues and gets louder. This goes on for a bit before the radio is maxed out in volume. All of a sudden police cars pull up and someone on the bullhorn calls out to the car for the family to rush out and over to the police car and to not look back. They all comply and rush out, the youngest kid trips and falls, in the process he looks back to the the madman slamming the dad's head violently on the car roof.
The detail of the hook was mentioned but didn't play the terrifying role in the original one in the book
That shirt is dope AF, Jon, and should be worn year-round! And -- Merry Spoop!!
spoopy season is the best i love being scared. when i watched the monkey’s paw video your storytelling genuinely had me sweating!
Some parts of the story reminds me of the Friday The 13th movie franchise, with The Voorhees killing teen lovers.
I love your videos, keep it up!❤
7:49 ❤😊would be the best collab!!! Cz's world is so thorough, as you are as well!
Every kid who grew up in illinois knows this story and its origins. This was also one of my favorite episodes of Supernatural Season 1.
I coulda sworn I heard a version of this but the hook, which was bloody, was stuck in the front door of the girl’s house. I can’t remember if the door was cracked or not, just that the bloody hook was stuck in the lock of the door.
Daaang, I actually had a CZ's video up on another tab for when i finished this video. Love the call out haha
You asked if the fact that he only uses his hooked hand isn’t able list because it acts like he doesn’t have another hand to use and you’d be correct in fact, I remember hearing that exact story that you told and making that comment when it was told in summer camp in North Carolina, they have their own legends there too, won’t go into it, but I was never scared of any of those because I need a couple of things they didn’t and I realized immediately how stupid it was… remember walking away from the campfire and walking all the way back to camp, where you know we had our dorm and going back to bed… one of the dorm counselors asked me why I walked away, and I told her that they should hear the story from the point of view of somebody who has met people who are handicapped, and the one thing that always gets us is the fact that people think we can’t do anything like normal people, and then she looked at me and she said you don’t look handicap and I just shook my head and said that’s because mine’s invisible to the naked eye and then told her I’m dyslexic and the reason I can read her right is because when they made a comment like most people who make comments unthinkingly I was gonna show the person who made the comment how long they were. And I told her just I don’t wanna talk about it anymore. Let’s just leave it alone and she did.
Why couldn't he open the door with his "good" hand? Maybe the doors were locked, so he was picking the lock with the hook.
great explanation!
My first guess was that he had an actual weapon in his good hand, so he was using the hook(which would be far less effective/harder to use as a lethal weapon than a knife, axe, gun, etc.) to open the door so he'd have the weapon ready.
His "inability" to open the door could be due to the hook being poorly fitting/affixed to his arm, as I find it hard to believe an insane asylum would allow a violent inmate to have something like a hook that he could potentially hurt himself or others with. We could also speculate that it was due to the fact that it was someplace dark and that hooks don't have nerve endings, so he may have just been having trouble feeling for the door handle. Third possibility is that the whole reason he lost his hand to begin with is that he had an accident due to already being uncoordinated, clumsy, and/or lacking his mental faculties.
@@JonSoloI'm from Indiana, according to the legend the hookman was a serial killer who murdered his victims with a hook, when he died he was buried in a cemetery, the locals were mad so they buried him in an unmarked grave, his spirit is still looking for victims, this took place at lovers lane in Peru Indiana
You know what’s weird? The hookman is the main antagonist in the movie I know what you did last summer, which is based on a book, but the hook is not me tioned in the book
18:19 29 yo and 17 yo girlfriend. Yeesh
Yeahhh I didn't comment on that out of respect for the victims but that's some Cody Ko shit right there
Man 😭😭😭
That was the norm for 6000 give or take.
Back in the days men would be 10 years older than there girlfriend and people say this generation is cooked.
The only hook story I saw was the one presented at a episode of Supernatural
That's the one I was thinking of
This story will always end with "Man door hand hook car door!" for me.
One piece has Crocodile who wields a hook but the dude has both hands.
It is a popular pirate story without a peg leg or hook hand pirate
You’ve got a great channel! In fact you have great a story-telling ability. You should stretch your content into more stories like this.
Had me captivated. 😮
What about a messed up origin of "the Texas chainsaw massacre". ?
You should really do a Messed Up Origins of When A Stranger Calls, because that's also based on a true story. It happened in my hometown and is one of the most terrible things you will hear.
Version I heard didn't have the date getting handsy. Matter of fact, he stayed a gentleman, even when he was OFFERED the chance to get lucky, because it was getting dark, and it was later than they should be out, but did make out for a bit. More of a cautionary tale about staying out late, than the dangers of sex.
Jon!! Every time I watch a video I see you wave your arms around while you’re talking and I would love a short video of all your tattoos! I need a tattoo tour 😂
I love this video even more because I grew up with the story of The town that dreaded sundown and I love it when stories of my area get covered. I've heard many variations of the hook story but I think scary stories to tell in the dark was the first version I heard.
I heard the same story that Spaz in that Bill Murray 1979 movie Meatballs heard. The guy had a hook on his foot! lol
Funny thing, the version I'm familiar with the boyfriend leaves the car to reassure his girlfriend there's no one there. I believe she gets spooked and drives away because I remember the ending better than the middle. Once she feels safe, she opens the door to find the hook dug into the car door. I don't mean stuck to the handle. I mean in the car door like he tried to stop her from driving off.
Yay, spoopy season. I'd love to see the origins of the Virginia Bunnyman. I believe it had some of an influence on Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. The tals is a train crashed passing over a bridge in Clifton, VA transferring patients between mental institutions in the DC area and either they all died, or one of them escaped and has been terrorizing and killing local residents, the haunting image of a noose hangs from underneath the overpass as an ominous warning on Halloween.
I heard the version on scary stories to tell in the dark. I don't think I read it, though, I'm sure I have that book. Not sure... maybe the Supernatural TV series. 🤷♀️
I've heard them all, but the way you present them is wonderful! (If you have time, would you mind covering the Greenbriar Ghost? If not, that's okay; it's really more of a local thing anyway.)
Say it with me now: ✋Yo Ho, Yo Ho, near the hooks we’ll never go…
Im surprised you didnt mention the Son of Sam murders ...he also targeted couples in secluded roadways.
I can’t remember if you did a messed up orgin of Candy Man.
There was an episode in supernatural that talked about the hook Man to. 😂
My introduction to it was the Supernnatural episode about it. One of the better episodes if you ask me.
I heard this as the one where the guy is killed and his hanging head is what was was banging on the car roof. My cousins told me this way back when we were teens 😂. It got me so scared but also made me want to watch more scary movies
I've heard the drip, drip, the foot scratching, and first of all, the hook in the door. I always thought the one about the scratching or tapping on the roof was mixing up this with the Mothman, though.
I read the story for the first time at some point in the mid-80s, in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. I credit that book series for my love of urban legends.
Awesome video! Super interesting seeing how these urban legends come about. The editing was hilarious too.
Anyone remember that story about the girl with a green ribbon around her neck?
Dark core memory
Oh yes. Haunted me for decades.
Not Jon using buster for a small clip in the video lmfao 🤣🤣🤣
Lol my brain went "you get flagged for moonlight? " 😂😅
Why did the other character have to be named Elizabeth ?! The version I had heard was always a cautionary tale, and the other version I had heard was 'and that killer was me' as the last line, but I'm thinking that addendum might be another urban legend. I could be wrong there though.
If you ever watched Total Drama, you can hear the character, Duncan telling a story similar to the hook story around the campfire
Glad to see a topic other than Disney stuff
The lover's lane murders reminded me right away of Zodiac.
I heard it first from my parents explaining a news article on urban legends, then I heard it told at camp, and from Scary Tales to Tell in the Dark. I also remember the Far Side parodying it with the Hook Man telling his grandkids who two teenagers in their car made off his his hook.
Pirates would get paid money for losing limbs as an injury comp. The worse it was, the more money when you were let go.
Depending on the limb also depended on the pay
@@heatherturner2366 Yeah, but it was all written out on paper, their job expectations, their pay, their percentage take on loot, injury compensation based on loss of part etc.
The first time I heard a version of it was from Ernest Goes to Camp, and his version was rather wah-wah lol.
No crazy inmate would have their hook with them. It's completely unstable? No.
The town that dreaded sundown didn't know it was actually based on the said string of murders heard hear until I was in my twenties and never would have thought it might be the inspiration for the hook other murders may have also contributed but there were so many similar attacks back then .
12:23 the kerning between the "R" and the "I" is slightly funky so I read it as "OR IGINS"
Please cover the myth behind Stravinsky's Firebird!